A/HRC/10/47 page 5 Australian Human Rights Commission. In terms of international development assistance, Australia has an HIV strategy entitled “Meeting the Challenge (2004)” which recognizes that addressing stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV is essential to effectively respond to the HIV epidemic. This strategy prioritizes working with those most vulnerable to HIV and its impacts, particularly women, injecting drug users and sex workers. 4. The Government of Austria provided information on its international development assistance in support of initiatives on HIV/AIDS. The Austrian Development Cooperation regards HIV/AIDS as a cross-cutting theme in its consideration of projects and programmes for development cooperation assistance. The majority of the HIV/AIDS-related projects that Austria supports are in Africa and Central America, and include multilateral funding through the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for monitoring national HIV/AIDS strategies and commissions, as well as bilateral support that promotes the human rights of women and young people, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive rights. 5. In its contribution, the Government of Canada underscored its commitment to human rights in the fight against HIV and AIDS and recognized the unique impact of HIV on women, children and other vulnerable populations. In this regard, Canada has supported a number of projects, which aim to provide care for caregivers, provide care and psychosocial support for children and their families, provide children with special protection from abuse, exploitation and violence, and improve women’s access to legal, property and inheritance rights and in turn reduce their vulnerability to HIV. Significant financial contributions have been made to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the 3 by 5 Initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS and the African Health Systems Initiative, as well as bilateral funding. This has been complemented by the introduction of a new tax incentive to encourage corporate donations of medicines for charitable purposes, as well as the issuance of Canada’s first compulsory license in September 2007 which enabled a Canadian generic drug manufacturer to export a generic fixed-dose combination AIDS drug to Rwanda. 6. Canada’s domestic response to HIV includes the Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS which focuses on HIV prevention, improved quality of life, reducing the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS and contributing towards the global effort to reduce the spread and mitigate the impact of HIV; the Canadian HIV/AIDS Vaccine Initiative - a public-private sector partnership for the development of safe, effective, affordable and accessible vaccines; and a national stakeholder-led initiative entitled “Leading together: Canada takes action on HIV/AIDS (2005-2010)” which outlines concrete actions to increase awareness, address social factors driving the epidemic, increase prevention, provide leadership in the global response, strengthen diagnosis, care, treatment and support, and enhance front-line efforts both in Canada and abroad. The Federal Initiative targets interventions to populations most vulnerable to HIV, including gay men, aboriginal peoples, prison inmates, people who inject drugs, women, youth at risk, and people from countries where HIV is endemic. Canada’s national response also promotes the participation of people living with and affected by HIV in the development of policies and programmes within Canada and abroad. The Canadian courts and human rights tribunals have also confirmed that HIV and AIDS constitute a disability. 7. The contribution of the Government of Cuba highlighted the fact that HIV disproportionately affects people living in poverty and that 20 per cent of the world’s population consumes 90 per cent of the resources that are allocated for health. Cuba has a low prevalence of